Appleton Area School District's nonviolent crisis intervention trainer Tom Kubisch explains de-escalation techniques during a training session held at Einstein Middle School November 14, 2013 in Appleton, Wis. Wm.Glasheen/Post-Crescent Media

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A sample of a dozen school districts from central through eastern Wisconsin showed half didn't meet a Department of Public Instruction recommendation for reporting detailed information about the number of students who are being secluded or restrained in school.

Under a state law passed in 2012, school districts must track how often students are removed from their classrooms or physically restrained, report each case to parents within one business day and give a report to school boards every year. Those reports were delivered to school boards for the first time this fall.